How Lake Havasu City Dealt w/ Tourism in a Pandemic w/ Jess Knudson

If you work in government in a tourism town, the pandemic was a nightmare come true.

But what happens when the tourists don’t stop coming?

That’s exactly the situation Jess Knudson, a City Manager from Lake Havasu, AZ, found himself in last year. He joined the show to share how he tackled the issue.

We discuss:

• The initial dropoff and later surge of tourism in Lake Havasu
• How Jess helped navigate budgeting and allocating resources to tackle the problem
• The challenge of navigating government financial support in the wake of the pandemic
  
  

This discussion with Jess Knudson was taken from our show Local Government Insights: Modernizing Government Leadership. If you want to hear more episodes like this one, check us out on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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